[arch-general] Forced to run fsck manually on unattended system

Rodrigo Rivas rodrigorivascosta at gmail.com
Wed Mar 6 12:09:52 EST 2013


On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 1:28 AM, Chris Down <chris at chrisdown.name> wrote:

>
> If you want to avoid data loss at the cost of performance, don't do
> any disk write caching. If I recall correctly, you can do this with
> `hdparm -W 0'.
>

And using a journaled file system, such as ext3 or ext4, should improve the
situation.
If you feel more comfortable with old, proved filesystems, ext3 has been
ready for production systems for quite some time.

Best regards.
--
Rodrigo


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